Technology Enhances Teacher vs. Threatens Survival
"Friend or Foe?"
From a recent post by Jeff Utecht over at The Thinking Stick blog Goodbye to your job.
Interesting video, but curious response from some of Utecht’s students: "Goodbye to your job!"
Maybe I’m not seeing what his students are seeing, but in my view technology can only enhance the classroom and the teacher; never replace him/her.
I saw this video and I thought to myself: wow! What a cool way to interact with language. Imagine being able to take pictures and so quickly be able to interact with them. Now imagine how that could be woven into a lesson around verbs, or nouns or….whatever you need to teach?
Or what about providing instant feedback to students? If you could put a digital camera or a cell phone on that computer table, and have them instantly interface, how hard would it be to have microphones that pick up conversations so that students could see and manipulate their words…looking for errors, maybe better ways of saying things, pronunciation, grammar mistakes…all hands on. (Language learning that appeals to hands on learners! Wow!)
I see great possibility for classroom and teaching enhancement with this innovation…and the only threat to those who fail to reinvent their style to keep up.
